Motivational Quotes

Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou